"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire

05 March 2008

How Himmler Got Busted

Attempting to evade arrest, he disguised himself as a sergeant-major of the Secret Military Police, using the name Heinrich Hitzinger, shaving his moustache and donning an eye patch over his left eye,[10] in the hope that he could return to Bavaria. He had equipped himself with a set of false documents, but someone whose papers were wholly in order was so unusual that it aroused the suspicions of a British Army unit in Bremen. Himmler was arrested on May 22 by Sergeant Arthur Britton, and in captivity, was soon recognized.